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School of Culture History and Language · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
This course covers a selection of advanced readings in Literary Chinese. Each semester, students study a different type of Literary Chinese text, including historiography, excavated texts, anecdotal literature, poetry, and Buddhist Chinese. Students read prescribed texts in class. They receive tuition in the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax specific to each type of text and register of Literary Chinese. Students also discuss the contextual information necessary for appreciation of the texts under study; and practise using a range of Sinological research tools to discover and interpret such information.
Preliminary translations (20 translations x 1% each)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Textual commentaries (5 commentaries x 5% each)
Learning outcomes 3, 4, 5
Research portfolio
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
This course requires a total of 130 hours of work, including: - two two-hour seminars each week; - six to seven hours of additional work, including assigned readings, supplementary research, and take-home assessments. Other Information CHIN3015 is offered every semester, unless otherwise indicated. Students may enrol in this course code more than once, under different topics. This course is taught by different academics with different areas of specialisation, on a rotating basis. Please consult the Class Summary for each session the course is offered to ascertain the topic for that session. ---- On successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to engage at an Advanced Independent level of Literary Chinese. Students who are not sure if they need to undertake a language proficiency assessment should seek advice from the course or language convenor. Students who intentionally misrepresent their language proficiency level may be investigated under the Academic Integrity Rule 2021 as having failed to comply with assessment directions and having sought unfair advantage. This may results in a penalty such as reduced grades or failure of the course. Students are not permitted to enrol in a language course below one that they have already successfully completed, except with permission of the language and/or course convenor.
Copies of prescribed texts and supplementary readings will be supplied on the course website. Where necessary, materials will also be distributed in hard copy in class. Lists of relevant contextual readings will also be available through the course website.